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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:02

    • 2.

      Why write in a crisis

      2:50

    • 3.

      The Benefits of Writing

      6:50

    • 4.

      Types of Crisis

      3:43

    • 5.

      Finding Inspiration & Motivation

      2:43

    • 6.

      Exercises

      7:37

    • 7.

      Using The Right Terms

      3:51

    • 8.

      Why YOUR Voice Is Important

      3:06

    • 9.

      Helping Others

      4:17

    • 10.

      Final Thoughts

      3:12

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Sometimes, life can be tough. Personal challenges, bad news and global crises can be overwhelming. But it is now more than ever, that artists and writers should create. 

Tasmin Hansmann, author, poet and freelance creative is used to write during crises, both personal and global. She has written and published the poetry collection The Anatomy of Waves, which deals with trauma, healing and finding belonging. Her new book, Welcome Home Dear Soul, is a poetic encounter with death, shaping grief and wonder into an atmospheric story. Her big passion is sustainability and as an environmentalist, she is fighting for climate action and social justice.

This 40-minute class will teach you why you should write and create even in dark times.  It will show you ways to remain hopeful, transform emotions into art and not give up your writing when things get hard.

Tasmin introduces you to techniques and practices that help you discover your inner voice and transfer your emotions and thoughts into writing Lessons include:

  • The benefits of writing 
  • Finding inspiration and motivation within a crisis
  • Writing exercises to get you started
  • The importance of research
  • Why your voice is needed
  • Helping others with your work

Whether you’ve always dreamed of becoming a writer or poet or you are simply overwhelmed by the state of the world or crises in your private life, Tasmin’s honest and authentic class will help you find the courage and motivation to create.

After taking this class, you will be empowered to live a creative life as a writer, poet or artist even in the hard times.

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Tasmin Hansmann

Author, Storyteller, Environmentalist

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Hi! My name is Tasmin Hansmann and I am an author, storyteller and environmentalist. So far, I have published my poetry collection The Anatomy of Waves, The Eloquence of Hurricanes and a novella called Welcome Home Dear Soul. I have also released the Azores Travel Journal.

I was born & raised in Germany but I left my old life behind and moved to the Azores Archipelago. Here, I decided to follow my passion and become a full-time writer and immerse myself into the topic of a better future. My daily life consists of (un)learning, creating and growing. And I am here to teach you about this path of creativity and sustainability.

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1. Introduction: Hello. Welcome to my class. My name is Tasmin Hansmann. I'm an author, and I'm a freelance creative. You might already know me from my first Skillshare class, Poetry for Beginners. I've been a writer all my life and so far I have two books published. The first one being The Anatomy of Waves, which is a poetry collection all about the longing, the Azores Archipelago, my love for the ocean, and so much more. My second book, Welcome Home Dear Soul, is a poetic and counter with death. It is a conversation beyond life. This class, we'll focus on writing and creating art during a crisis. The words crisis, it can be defined in a lot of different ways from personal to global, but it is always something that affects us very deeply. No matter if you are in an emotional, personal crisis after, for example, a heartbreak or while healing from trauma, or if you are confronted with a global crisis like a pandemic or the climate crisis. This class is here to help you stay inspired and actually work with the pain and with the conflicts to create something beautiful out of it. Well, I will focus mostly on the writing aspect of it all. If you are a different artist, for example, a painter or musician, you can still take this class. You just need to adapt the things that I say a little bit more to your niche of making art. First, I will show you the benefits of writing in general. Then we will dive deep into the craft of how you can find inspiration despite or through the crisis. Finally, we will discuss the importance of your voice for yourself and others. Let's get started. 2. Why write in a crisis: You might think that during a crisis, art is the least of our concerns. While, yes, it does not help us survive on a physical level like food or shelter, it still helps us with the mental and emotional burden of it all. Art in whatever shape or form can contribute to resilience, and eventually recovery. Stories, poems, and other art forms can give hope, even when everything seems hopeless. Books can become a place to escape when reality is too hard to bear, they can show the beauty within chaos. Sometimes depending on the type of writing, they also tell the story of the present moment, documenting all facets and perspectives from the brutality of life to the little miracles among the darkness. This is why I have created this course. We're currently in the middle of multiple global crisis. A lot of us are also affected by local crisis and personal emotional crisis on top of it all, and the pressure is very high. Life, sometimes it's very hard to enjoy at the moment and that is completely okay. But it can also be seen as an invitation to create something that offers beauty and hope, or something that tackles the harsh truths of reality. As the class project, I'm asking you to write a little something, it can be a poem, it can be a full short story, it can just be a few thoughts, maybe an idea, maybe an outline, whatever it is that you want to create, just write something very small that is inspired by a crisis. This can be a personal or a global crisis. If you are used to write more about personal challenges, try to write about bigger issues for this project. If you usually write about the bigger things, try and focus on the obstacles in your own life, for this project. Writing within a crisis can help both you as well as others, that is why I would love to see you make a little project based on the lessons of this class. Because we all need a little bit more kindness in this world, especially when we talk about crises. Please leave some kindness, compassion, and love on the projects of your classmates down below. I will also be down there and I will comment on each and every one of the projects. If you would like some feedback on your project, please let me know and I will offer this as well. See you there. 3. The Benefits of Writing: In this lesson, I would like to talk about the benefits of writing, because writing actually has a lots of benefits. It is even scientifically proven that writing on a regular basis will increase your happiness, and I'm sure many authors, and writers, and people who have journals or gratitude journals, for example, will agree. The research has shown that especially expressive writing. The type of writing where you express your feelings and thoughts is linked to happiness. For this, it doesn't matter if it is fictional or poetic, if it's a diary, or something completely out of the lines, it doesn't really matter what type of writing it is. What is most important is that you do it regularly and that it is an expression of your soul. If you develop a writing practice or writing habit of doing it every day or multiple times per week, besides the mental benefits, it even has benefits for your physical health, such as lower stress levels, a better immune system, and a better memory. Why is that? There are multiple reasons why writing is beneficial for you. It helps you communicate thoughts more clearly and bring order to your mind, which allows you to talk with others with more ease. Depending on the way you write, if you, for example, write about hope or about misery, the writing has different effects on you. If you implement optimistic and hopeful aspects in your writing, you are more grateful for what you have. If you on the other hand write more pessimistically and, for example, deal a lot with misery, and pain, and chaos, and uncertainty in your writing, you are basically "complaining" about the current status quo or a potential worst-case scenario. This complaining acts as a placebo effect for getting satisfied. Therefore, you feel relieved after writing. This implies that no matter how you approach writing, if you write something fictional, if you write something non-fictional, if you write full of hope, and ideas, and solutions, or if you write about very pessimistic thoughts, that all of it will help you feel better in the long run. It also doesn't matter if you write about the crisis at hand, or if you write about something completely different to just distract your mind. Escapism is completely valid. Also, we all know that the harshest experiences sometimes are the best stories. Like that embarrassing thing that happened to you a few years back. It was pretty bad when it happened. But now it is a great story that you love to talk with your friends about so you can all have a good laugh. Crises are of course a bit more serious and a bit more complex but the principle is still the same. Crises are opportunities for finding stories. If we take a closer look at literature from the past or even from the present moment, we can see that many, many of the big names have been inspired by a crisis. Walt Whitman, for example, experienced the American Civil War. CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were affected by World War I. George Orwell was affected by the Spanish Civil War. The huge book, The Book Thief, is based on World War II, as is the famous Diary of Anne Frank, which is just that a diary from a little girl. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote about the horrible reality of slavery. If we look more into the recent years, we for example, have the Poppy War, which is a fantasy trilogy and which is based on the Second Sino-Japanese War, which was horrifying. If we look at Joan Didion, one of the most famous writers out there, she deals a lot with the topic of grief in her books. She even said, "Writing is the only way I've found that I can be aggressive." She also said, "I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world", which shows you a lot on how she dealt with the crisis in her life. Even the fluffy book, Eat Pray Love deals with a midlife crisis. The famous non-fiction memoir, Know My Name by Chanel Miller, talks about sexual abuse and how to survive it. When Breath Becomes Air talks about cancer. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground talks about indigenous struggles, and The Chief Witness talks about the current genocide that is happening in China. The book, The Soul of the World imagines a potential apocalypse and how people from different faiths can come together and find a middle ground. In general, if we look to the bookshelves in the bookstores, we will see more and more books that deal with the topics like climate change. There was a whole genre called CLI-FI, which is climate science fiction. We also see books about COVID, for example. Even in the Roman section, you will already find books about the corona pandemic. These were all examples from the book world. But if we look into the world of music, for example, we will find just as many examples, and if we look into the world of art, we will also find great examples. The first one that comes to mind is Vincent van Gogh, who struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts all of his life and still created all of these masterpieces that we all know until this very day, even if we're not maybe deep into the art world. Today in the age of social media, there are campaigns like rewriting extinction, where comic artists come together to talk about the loss of biodiversity and climate change. You can see that arts of all different kinds of forums can have an impact and can be inspired by a crisis. We can summarize. Writing is beneficial for your mental health, and if done regularly also for your physical health. Crisis can be a source of inspiration like so many great names in literature and other forms of art have shown. In the following lessons, we will have a look on how to find this kind of inspiration. 4. Types of Crisis: Before we look into the actual craft of finding inspiration and writing during the crisis, I first wanted to take a little look at the different types of crisis that can occur because this is important to distinguish. First, we have the personal crisis. This is a crisis that affects only you, or at least mostly you. Something that makes you suffer on a mental and or emotional and sometimes even physical level. This can be a heartbreak, a mental health problem, a diagnosis, grief, or something that is causing you big amounts of unnatural stress. A community crisis is something that affects a community so a group of people. This does not necessarily mean a local community, although it can. But your family can be seen as a community or a group of friends or other people you are in community with. For example, when new laws had been announced in 2021, that certain tattoo colors would be forbidden in certain countries, the tattoo community was affected even though they are not locally bound or know each other. Another example would be the indigenous people of America who are not one homogenous community but that have to go through so many crisis as a whole and with latest edition being the discovery of the graves of indigenous kids at old residential schools. This, for example, is very much the example of a community crisis because it affects a group of people no matter if they're actually related, living close together or not. A local crisis can be anything from a small town to your country or even your continent. Examples for local crisis might be the wildfires in California, the floods in Germany, hurricane damage in Florida, or the desertification in certain parts of the African continent. War, for example, is often a local crisis. Global crisis are things that affect each and every one of us no matter where we live or how we live. The COVID pandemic or climate change are prime examples for this. But of course, local crisis or community crisis can be seen in a bigger scale as well. While the deforestation of the Amazon, for example, is a local crisis, it still affects us all in a passive way and should be talked about from both perspectives. No matter what type of crisis you are facing. All of these types of crisis can be an inspiration because they give us topics to write about and emotions that we can work with from rage to help to finding those hidden untold stories like, for example, the famous movie and book hidden figures. They can also inspire you to escape into a completely different world or to solve the problems at hand with magic in a fantastical setting. Of course, it is also completely okay to feel highly uninspired during crisis. It is completely fine if you are left with no desire to create because the pressure is just too high. Please remember that this is okay and it doesn't make you any less a writer or an artist. But if you want to change that, try and flip the perspective a little bit. I will talk more about how to do that in my next lesson. 5. Finding Inspiration & Motivation: As I said at the end of the last lesson, please be aware that if you feel uninspired, that this is completely normal. Crisis can be very overwhelming and leave you with no desire or no ideas to create anything that is hopeful or even anything that is angry. Being bored helps you be inspired as well, and healing can also inspire you on your journey forward. Please take care of your mental health first. If you are actually taking a break but don't want to be completely separated from your art, just use this time to grow. Educate yourself on different writing tools, Read books or articles, listen to podcasts, or simply rest. Doing nothing, getting enough sleep, taking care of yourself sometimes is enough. To be a good artist, you need to live a good life. This does not mean to be happy everyday or to make something creative everyday. It simply means that you let your heart lead the way, and sometimes all your heart wants to do is sit on the sofa and watch a good movie, and that is totally fine. Besides, as artists and writers, inspiration is everywhere. For example, the light and how it hits a certain object during a specific time of day, the way someone eats their breakfast, a sound that the wind creates in a certain point when you stand in a specific spot, things like this. Never underestimate the power of the ordinary. But if you are looking for inspiration, here are a few tips. You can do research about the crisis, look into the details, read everything that you can about this topic or a certain aspect of the topic. Listen to different perspectives on the topic from different kinds of people and see if you can carve out a story from there. You can also look within and analyze your emotions or the reactions to your emotions and then create something that releases those emotions or uses them to craft something else. You can also talk with family and friends and listen to their opinions about the whole topic, if this is a safe space for you to do so. Maybe someone has a story to tell, or somebody has an idea, or something that they say just sticks with you. If you're still uninspired, my next lesson are five exercises that help you get started. 6. Exercises: Now that we have talked about why writing is important and how to get inspired, I have five different exercises for you to try out and maybe get started with your next project. In the examples I will show you, I will use the climate crisis as my topic of choice for this example because it is a crisis that all of us are currently going through and it is also a topic that is very near and dear to my own heart. But of course, you can adapt these exercises to whatever crisis is currently most important to you and whatever crisis you want to work with. Take a crisis and imagine three different outcomes from the current situation. Create art on at least one of them. For example, a poem, a painting, a short story, an essay, or something else. You can also use this exercise, for example, as your class project. As I said, my example will be climate change, and the three different outcomes are the apocalypse, action for change, or the Planthropocene. Under the apocalypse aspect, I understand the complete collapse of ecosystems. We will have a silent planet with no animals, insects, birds. There will be hunger and there will be a lot of suffering, death, and misery. This is, of course, the worst-case outcome. Then I have a middle-ground outcome that I named action for change in the lack of a better term. For me, what I mean with that is that there is a raising of awareness, that there are genuine solutions, and that there's also acceptance of the things that we cannot change anymore. That there's tolerance for different types of situations and different types of problems. That there is a lot of community, people coming together, especially young people. The youth is getting more power and the youth are like a leading part in this as they are already, to be honest, and that nature becomes the priority and there's a lot of support for everyone no matter the circumstances. Then I have a third outcome that I named the Planthropocene, which is basically a green planet full of fresh air and fresh food for everyone. The forests which are in biodiversity returns. Exploration is back on the menu but not as like we are exploring different countries, but we are exploring different kinds of natures and different kinds of living with natures, and that there is peace. Of course, climate change is very, very complex and can have a billion and one outcomes, but these were just three different outcomes that I thought of for this exercise. The poem that I created based on the topic of climate change and different outcomes from it, you will find in the projects down below. Exercise number 2. Take an emotion you're feeling right now and find as many synonyms, related words, or rhymes as possible depending on what area you want to improve on. Or if you are an artist that paints, associate each emotion with a color and use the outcome as a color palette for your next piece. Repeat the exercise with the opposite emotion once you're done. When I think of the topic of climate change, one of the main emotions that I do feel is anger. I used anger and I personally looked for related words and synonyms for anger. The opposite emotion, which would be the next step for me in this exercise, is to do the same process but with the emotion of being calm. If you could talk to someone that is not affected by the crisis or if you had to explain the situation to a child, what would you say? Which metaphors would you use? For my example, I think I would use terms like the earth is hurt, people are being unfair to animals and to other people, and we are taking away what is not ours in the first place, and that everything is connected like the inside of a computer or the roots of a tree or spider's web, like this depends a little bit on who the person is I'm talking to, which example I would use here. But that everything is connected. I will try to explain this. I will try to explain that people are afraid of change. The emotion that I will try to bring across is urgency but also hope. Exercise number 4 is a question I would like you to answer. It is, if you have the power in the world to change one thing, anything you like but only one single thing, what would you do and what consequences would that change have? I came up with three different answers for this exercise because I wanted to show you that you can go very different routes with this exercise. Whatever comes to your mind first go with it because this is what your gut is telling you. But for example, I came up first with making people more compassionate and then going from there. What effects would that have? But this would be a very emotional change. But you can, for example, also change something political. For example, in my example, maybe I would revolutionize the food industry. Or you can, for example, also say, okay, I want to change something locally or something geographically like infusing the land back movement in America and handing the land back to indigenous people. But if I have to choose one, I would probably choose the first one because I also think it is the most interesting one to follow through in terms of what consequences would that have. Exercise number 5 is for when you do not want to write or create inspired by a crisis. Imagine an actual door that appears and you walk through it. Behind the door is the world you imagine, a world where the crisis you're affected by does not exist. How would this world look like? Write it down or create it with your paintbrush. As a visual artist, you can bring that open door itself to life and show like just a glimpse of what is behind it. As a writer, you can describe the experience of walking through that door and arriving in a different version of reality. In my case, I think it will be a Planthropocene with a hint of magic and some dragons. I hope these exercises helped you get inspired and get started and got you some new ideas. If you look into the resources down below, I have created a PDF for you that you can download and print out to do the exercises. If you have any questions regarding the exercises or anything else in this class, please feel free to start a discussion in the discussion board down below. 7. Using The Right Terms: Now that we've talked about the benefits of writing, as well as getting inspired and motivated, I wanted to make sure that you are using the correct terms when writing. When a crisis is your inspiration even for a fictional piece, please keep in mind that in a lot of cases, other people are affected too, which means you have to do research. I know this can be a bit of a downer, especially after I have just showed you those exercises and you feel the motivation kicking in and you just want to get going and get to the paper. But when it comes to crisis, research is completely crucial, and it needs to be done properly because one wrong word can ruin your entire piece. I do not say this to frighten you. I'm simply trying to make you aware. For example, if you want to talk about climate change, the example that I've been using throughout this class to explain my concepts to you, you will have to look deeper into the issues of capitalism, of the oppression of indigenous people, and other social justice issues. Because you cannot talk about one without talking about the other. If you do so, you need to do the right terms. You need to always respect other people that are involved or that you are talking about. Phrasing is very important here because some terms are appropriate and some are not. Here, it is important to first listen to perspectives and accounts from the people that you might be talking about or that might be involved in the whole concept, and listen to what they have to say in order to respectfully represent them or respectfully present the whole issue in a way that it doesn't exclude them. To use a different example if you, for example, write about the damages of a hurricane, it's not enough to just write about the damages and the misery it's brought. You also need to look into why the damage was the way it was, why the hurricane happened the way it did, and how it did affect different types of people in various ways. Yet another example, if you want to write about the pandemic, you need to inform yourself as best as you can about the science that is currently available, and how the pandemic affects different people differently depending on their social circumstances. Especially the bigger the crisis, the more complex it gets, and the more research you need to do. If you write for change, if you write to dismantle, you first need to question your own belief system, your own language, and your own lack of knowledge. In order to step out into the world with it, you need to be open-minded and willing to listen first and speak later. It is important to engage with experts in their fields and own voices accounts of injustices or disasters in order to create something out of it, even if it is just for a fictional piece. If you just write escapism, which as I said, is completely valid, you of course do not have to do this type of research, but it never hurts to be aware and know more. It is always good to use the right terms for different people in different circumstances. To summarize, when you write inspired by or about a crisis that does not only affect you personally and no one else, it is important to do research and use the correct terms and information to craft your story. In my next lesson, I'm going to talk you through why your voice is important. 8. Why YOUR Voice Is Important: So far we have talked about the benefits of writing, how to get inspired even within a crisis or even by the crisis itself. We have also discussed the importance of the correct phrasing and dwelled on research. Now, I would like to look deeper into why you should write about a crisis or create something that offers an escape from it all. [MUSIC] You might ask yourself, why does my voice matter? I'm just one of many, so many other people have already talked about heartbreak, climate change, or other issues. Am I just adding to the noise? Is my writing really that important? Will it make a difference? Why should I even bother to share my thoughts? Let me tell you, all artists have been there. We all have doubted our abilities, our value or the significance of our work. But let me tell you, just because someone else has already talked about a certain topic, or tackled it in a specific style, does not mean that your work is not of value and not need. Have you ever listened to a new love song on the radio or on your streaming service and thought to yourself, a song about love? I remember that there is one other artist has written a song about love, which means this new artist is nothing but a copy cat, and this song is invalid and shouldn't have never been published. No? Then the same applies for your art and writing as well. Just because a topic has been discussed before, does not mean your own approach will not add to the conversation, will not touch people, or will not be valuable. Each and every single one of us has a different experience of life, love, loss, crisis, and the environment, and therefore, our perspective when writing is also unique. Will it be inspired by others? Yes, I hope so. As I just mentioned in the last lesson, you need to do your research. As artists and writers, we should always seek out other art and other writing in order to be inspired and to educate ourselves and to get better at our craft. But as long as you didn't one-on-one copy someone's work, it is still your unique voice that you are bringing to the table. The most important part of it all, is that it comes from your heart, and how could your heart be insignificant? If you have done the proper research and really gave it your all in terms of imagination or if it is a non-fiction story, your precise analysation and description of the truth, it will be good enough. Maybe your specific point of view will help others on their journey. About that, I will talk in the next lesson. 9. Helping Others: We are at our final lesson. You know why writing is beneficial for you. How to get inspired by a crisis or despite a crisis. We have done some exercises to get you started. I've talked to you through the importance of research and I have addressed why you should write about these topics. In this final lesson, I would like to add to the last lesson that I just mentioned and open up your perspective towards the possibility of helping others. When it comes to crises, no matter how big or small, we need to come together to solve them. When someone's heart is broken, they need to be comforted. If someone got hurt, they need a safe space to heal. If there are issues within your community or your family, communication needs to take place and solutions need to be found. When global crises take over, we need to address them, do our part, and pressure the big players to do their part as well. The key element here is coming together. You might be sitting on your desk all alone, feeling lonely and like your work will not make a difference, I already spoke in the last lesson about how that is not true. But let's look deeper into it. I will use climate change as an example once again, to make it a bit more easy to understand. But you can change these examples to whatever crisis you want to write about. If you write poetry about nature and the loss of biodiversity, you could inspire readers to look deeper into conservation and active action towards the future for animals, plants, and humans alike. By sharing your emotions within just a short poem, you will touch upon their heart and shake it awake softly but certain. If you write a nonfiction book about a specific aspect of the crisis, unheard stories or how specific social justice issues are interconnected with the climate emergency, you educate people and offer a resource for activists. If you write a fiction novel about a world with similar issues than ours, you inspire people with either hope or fear to compare the fictional world with the real world and take action towards a better future or at least further away from a dystopian one. Fiction can often be dismissed, but it can become a powerful tool. The Handmaid's Tale, Animal Farm, or the books by Becky Chambers are just some examples of this type of fiction. Finally, if you write about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the crisis you're experiencing, then you still offer an escape for other troubled minds who may have difficulties surviving this crisis emotionally and mentally. Escapism is so valid and so necessary because in order to battle any type of crisis, we need to also take care of ourselves and our mental health. You see, if you put your unique perspective out there, no matter in what shape or form, it will be heard. Even if it does not reach a massive international audience or it will change regulations and laws, the butterfly effect can still happen even if you just reach one single person. Even if it doesn't have a butterfly effect, by helping one person along their way, you're helping all of us and whenever you are in doubt, please remember that one song that just hit different. Even though you have heard countless songs about the same topic before, there is always this one song that just hit right into your fields because it helped you through a tough time. It described exactly what you were feeling or it just made you feel a certain way. You can do the same with your art as well. 10. Final Thoughts: Let's summarize this class. Writing has many benefits, such as stress relief and other health benefits through emotional expression, improved communication skills, and it can also be a way of escaping reality for a while. There are four different types of crises you might encounter. Personal crises such as heartbreak or health issues, community crises that affect a group of people, local crises that affect towns, regions, or nations, and finally, global crises that affect humanity and the planet as a whole. Art can become crucial within crisis for multiple reasons, to offer an escape, to inspire, to motivate, to help, or to document. You can find inspiration within challenging times by looking deeper into the issue by searching for solutions or by using exercises such as the ones I showed you to let your imagination run wild. It is crucial and necessary to do research if you write about or inspired by a crisis that affects other people as well as yourself. In order to understand the complexity of the issue, use the right terms and contribute to the solving of the crisis and not the worsening of it. Your unique experiences and perspectives as well as your specific writing style are valid and important and should always be seen as powerful even when it does not reach an audience of millions. By creating art within a crisis or inspired by problems and sharing this art, you can help others in many different ways such as feeling seen, getting inspired, or finding an escape to better cope with reality. If you want to keep these lessons at hand, you can always re-watch this course or go down to the resources and download the PDF I prepared for you. Now, I would really like to see your class projects. No matter how big or small, if it is inspired by a crisis, it's personal one or global one, or whatever it might be, please do not hesitate to share. I am so excited to see and read all of your projects. Because coming together is such a crucial part of dealing with crises, please remember to also leave some love and kindness on the projects of your classmates. If you want to learn more about me, feel free to visit my website, check out my YouTube channel or look into my books [LAUGHTER] and if you want to learn more about writing, please also feel free to check out my other Skillshare classes. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you feel inspired and you learnt something new and if you have any feedback whatsoever, please feel free to leave a review down below, or to ask me any type of question in the discussion board. Now, go and write, go and create because your voice is so, so valid.